plastic lip slot machine devises an abecedary in response to the ‘drawing-writing’ or graphic poetry of Belgian artist Sophie Podolski and explores a shared interest in both artists’ practices of new forms of embodying text or ‘reading’ the illegible.
The performance emerges from Seita’s ongoing practice of ‘touching language’ through performance, performative objects, sound, scores, somatic workshops, and textiles, and an ongoing preoccupation with other forms of sense making and sensual encounter with materials. It unfolds through a series of Seita’s experimental graphic scores for imagined voices and abstract bodies, also featuring other props for making language malleable, or out of—as Podolski says—‘some plastic material’.
The performance takes place in the context of our exhibition if words are to be sounded.
You are warmly invited to also attend the reading by Joana Atemengue Owona & Dejvi Haxhi on Oct 29, 2026 and the workshop by Nolle BuAbbud on Nov 14, 2026 that touch upon the topics of the performance with their own perspectives.
Funding
As part of the PERSPEKTIVE fund for contemporary art & architecture, an initiative of the Bureau des arts visuels of the Institut français d’Allemagne. Supported by the French Ministry of Culture, the Institut français Paris and the Goethe Institut.
Funding GAK Bremen: Karin und Uwe Hollweg Stiftung, Beate + Hartmut Schaefers Stiftung, Partnerschaften für Demokratie in Bremen, gefördert vom Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend im Rahmen des Bundesprogramms Demokratie leben, Sparkasse Bremen, Senator für Kultur der Freien und Hansestadt Bremen